Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 14:41:04 09/02/01
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On September 01, 2001 at 11:05:29, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On September 01, 2001 at 09:49:44, Charles Young wrote: > >>There is an independent article the the P4 3.5 ghz exists. Surely, if amd had >>such a chip independent writers would have columns on it. > >Those 'independent writers' get their information directly from Intel. > >What Vincent means is that while you can demonstrate a cool technology, >that doesnt mean you'll be able to deliver it on the desktops for the >near future. In this case, it does. If Intel can make a chip that runs at 3.5GHz, that means they just have to get their process running well enough to produce enough for commercial purposes. That takes a finite amount of time. When did Intel demo the 2GHz P4? Less than a year ago, I thought. And now we can buy them. >Intel just managed to get one P4 up to 3.5ghz. Thats nice. But that doesn't >help us. > >It's very likely that AMD could build such a chip too. But it's vaporware for >the users. Doubt it. AMD just recently reworked the chip to run over 1.4GHz. The problem was reported to be heat, and the new design reduces power consumption by 20%, meaning that they should be able to get Athlons up to 1.7GHz and probably a little faster than that but nowhere near 3.5GHz with their current design. -Tom
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